My Win2000 power user broke when I installed Oracle

I have a Win2000 laptop that was connected to a company network. I log in as the user cdold on the domain "corp", even though I am no longer connected to the network. There is no "local" user cdold.

cdold was a "power user" and could do most things, including adding software. Recently, I added Oracle 8.1.7... It's all been bad since then ;-( Oracle wouldn't install as cdold, I had to log off, and log in as the local administrator. After that, several other programs wouldn't run, because cdold couldn't modify the registry. I can't add/remove hardware, or do othre configurations within programs that cause modifications of the registry, which I used to be able to do before Oracle.

I don't want to be "adminstrator".

Is there some permissions setting that I can change? I looked at "My Computer - Manage - Users and groups". I can't add corp\cdold to the power-user group. I see a power user S-1-5-..... which I'm afraid was "cdold" before the Oracle installation. I see that the power user ends in -500, where the registry HKEY_USERS has an entry for S-1-5...-4394. with the rest being the same.

I suppose I'm going to have to reload Win2000, or create a power user called cdold locally, and copy all of corp\cdold's stuff. I expect that would be a mess.

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Clarence A Dold - dold_at_email.rahul.net
                - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA.